Oh, if your amp has a Bright switch, turn it off when using it with the RAH (or most any other dirt pedal). Some
Fender amps, like the Deluxe Reverb don’t have a Bright switch but internally the bright switch is always “on”.
All the Bright switch does is switch in a capacitor that can easily be clipped out of the circuit. You could, of
course, just use the Normal channel which has no Bright capacitor but then you won’t have the option of
reverb either with most Fender-style amps.
The RAH, like all of the Catalinbread foundation overdrives is also a very useful into larger amps as an "pre-
attenuator". Set the big amp to clean, use the RAH to sound like that amp CRANKED! (Cue up the Xzibit "Yo
Dawg, I heard you like Hiwatts so we put a Hiwatt sounding pedal in front of your Hiwatt so that you could have
the cranked Hiwatt sound through a quieter Hiwatt.")
STACKING WITH OTHER PEDALS
The RAH was specifically designed to combine well with other pedals. This section gives you ideas on how to
incorporate it into your rig.
Think of the RAH as your virtual pre-amp. And let's think
of your actual guitar amp as your "power amp". With
that in mind, what types of pedals do most guitarists
normally plug into the front of their amp? "All
Pedals!" is the quick answer. But some types of pedals
might work better in the effects loop of the amp or
even fed from the amp mic. So, pedals that you
would normally plug in front of an amp, you'd plug in
front of the RAH. Pedals that you might prefer to run
in the "effects loop" would go between the RAH and
your amp. Confused? Let's try an example....
Guitar -> wah -> treble booster -> fuzz -> phaser ->
RAH -> delay -> reverb -> amp.
In this example, the treble booster and fuzz is over-
driving the RAH, just like you would use these pedals
into an actual cranked amp. The delay and reverb is
between the RAH and the amp, which is our virtual
"effects loop". The delay and reverb after the RAH and
into your amp (which is set clean), remain clear
instead of being distorted and smeared.
Note: Although we think that Page mostly did not use
any sort of fuzz or overdrive for most of his live gigs
(after he started using Les Pauls anyway), the RAH
sounds great with fuzzes, overdrives, and boosts in front
of it.
Powering your RAH
The RAH runs on 9volts DC negative ground only,
either from a battery or from the DC jack.
